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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

ISBN: 9780140621808
Release Date: 31 Jul 1997
Average rating: (read by 246 members)

Categories: General & literary fiction , Classic fiction

Raskolnikov, a destitute and desperate former student, wanders through the slums of St Petersburg and commits a random murder without remorse or regret. He imagines himself to be a great man, a Napoleon: acting for a higher purpose beyond conventional moral law. But as he embarks on a dangerous game of cat and mouse with a suspicious police investigator, Raskolnikov is pursued by the growing voice of his conscience and finds the noose of his own guilt tightening around his neck. Only Sonya, a downtrodden prostitute, can offer the chance of redemption.

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	jnnnnn
	Rated it 5 days ago

Incredibly depressing.

	Crazifantazi
	Rated it 20 days ago

Gave up after about 200 pages as it went so slow. Enjoyed the way it was written but couldn't go on.

	ajk77
	Rated it 1 months ago

Depressing as Russians can make it...

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